Friends... Can't live with 'em, can't shoot 'em! Just kidding, guys...
My all-time favorite...
"Miranda The Tempest"
By John William Waterhouse
"Boreas"
By JW Waterhouse
"Crystal Ball"
By JW Waterhouse
Artwork by
Jessica Galbreth
In no particular order: President George W. Bush...
I LOVE Morgan Freeman! I have so much respect for him and even more now especially with what he's said lately politically... You know what I'm talking about if you've heard... All I can say, I HIGHLY AGREE WITH HIM!!!
Anyway, he is SUCH a great actor. I don't get easily starstruck, and I've seen a lot of celebrities... But if I were to meet him, I'd be so tard probably! Plus he's so fartherly-looking!!! I'd so wanna hug him, but I probably freak him out because I'd be all tard and gigil...
Sarah McLachlan... Wait a minute, I have met her! Johnny Cash... Stevie Nicks, another one I'd be tard around... So I guess 2 people would leave me starstruck. Darth Vader, just to see if he's really as tall as he looks, 'cause I'm kinda short... All 9 Ringwraiths, because they're really not that scary...
OKAY, BUT SERIOUSLY, I WOULD LOOOOOOOVE TO MEET COACH TONY DUNGY... I'VE ALWAYS HAD SUCH RESPECT AND BEEN LEFT ENCOURAGED BY WHAT HE LIVES BY EVER SINCE I HEARD HIM ON "FAMILY LIFE" RADIO. BUT EVER SINCE HIS SON'S DEATH, I'M JUST LEFT IN UTTER AMAZEMENT OF WHAT AN INCREDIBLE MAN HE TRULY IS... AND HOW HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST IS SO EVIDENT, AFFECTING THOSE AROUND HIM AND ENCOURAGING THOSE OF US ALL THE WAY ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COUNTRY...
THIS IS HIS STATEMENT TO THE PRESS AFTER HIS SON'S FUNERAL:
“I'll start out by saying, 'Thank You,’ for the love, the prayers and the support that we’ve received from the people of Tampa, the people of Indianapolis and the people all over the country. They’ve been very, very great and gracious to us in a time of grief for our family.
“We loved our son very much. He loved us. And we miss him terribly. But we also understand that we have some tremendous promises from God. God promises to be with us. He’s with us in the great times. He’s with us in the tough times. Our family will stand strong. The strength that we have in the Lord will allow us to get through this just as we get through times of victory.
“Our grief is great, but from our family, we just say, ‘Thank You.’ We just say, ‘Thank You,’ to everyone. We appreciate everybody who has touched his life, everybody who has been part of him growing up. James - he was a good young man with a compassionate heart and we were glad to have him for 18 years.
“We’re also glad that he accepted Christ as his savior so that God has him now for the rest of eternity. Thank You.â€
IRISH/CELTIC MUSIC
+ Chieftains
+ Sinead O'Connor
+ Clannad
+ The Corrs
I like pretty, talented people like they are. And they ROCK Irish Trad, baby!
+ Ashley MacIsaac
+ Natalie MacMaster
+ Enya
SCANDINAVIAN
+ Garmarna
+ Annbjorg Lien
+ Sorten Muld
+ Wimme
+ Delerium
+ Kidney Thieves
+ Enigma
+ Alison Krauss & Union Station
+ Portishead, Beth Gibbon's voice is just unbelievable
+ Bjork
+ Jennifer Knapp
+ Billie and Ella and Sarah and Lena
+ Sarah McLachlan
+ STEVIE NICKS is always and forever "the poet in my heart"
+ Fleetwood Mac
+ The Eagles (Ryan, I still canNOT for the life of me get over the fact that you don't like them!)
+ The Doors
+ Dave Matthews Band
+ Beastie Boys
+ Lynyrd Skynyrd
+ Led Zeppelin
+ The Allman Brothers
+ The Steve Miller Band
+ Johnny Cash
+ Queen
+ The Doobie Brothers (Ryan, what's a doobie?)
+ Bad Company
+ America
+ Styx
+ Boston
+ Billy Idol
+ Depeche Mode
+ Third Day
+ Drain S.T.H.
+ D-E-V-O!
+ Mindless Self Indulgence
+ And EVANESCENCE!!!
THE YOUNG DUBLINERS ROCK! YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THEM LIVE, THEY'RE JUST WAY BEYOND COOL. AND OH YEAH, THEY'RE IRISH, TOO!
+ UNDERWORLD (Both...)
+ GLORY
(My favorite scene in GLORY...)
+ TOMBSTONE, baby!
+ Lord of The Rings Trilogy
+ The Usual Suspects
+ Boondock Saints
+ Still Crazy
+ The Commitments
+ BRAT PACK MOVIES, BABY!!!
+ St. Elmo's Fire
+ Sixteen Candles
+ Pretty In Pink
+ The Breakfast Club
+ Schindler's List
+ THE GREAT RAID
+ Classics w/Cary Grant or Astaire or Bogart
+ Goonies
+ The Princess Bride
+ Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
+ King Arthur
+ Star Wars Trilogy (original one)
+ Blade Trilogy
+ Braveheart
+ MOULIN ROUGE
+ CHICAGO
+ I LOVE musicals (both movie & theatre) -- Gershwin, Jerome Robbins, Andrew Lloyd Webber. There are too many to mention! Okay, thanks bye.
+ WAIT!!! No tard, that ain't no movie. Wait, one more! "THE LITTLE MERMAID". And yes, I cried... Shut up!
I'd have to say that my ultimate favorite show on right now is:
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3 words and 3 words only: JACK'S THE MAN!!!
.. BTY, I don't like that Nina's gone... I know, I know she couldn't stay forever. (HeyKuyaJet, thanks for the pix, copied them from you...)
+ Prison Break
+ Criminal Minds
+ House
+ The Young Riders
+ The Magnificent 7
+ CSI (Las Vegas, it's only OG)
+ Without A Trace
+ King of Queens
+ Still Standing
+ Or whatever reality TV show my husband comes upon
FOOTBALL!!!
BRUSCHI, YOU AIN'T GOT NOTHIN ON HIM...
NEVER AGAIN WILL WE SEE THIS... CAN WE HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE PLEASE...
I'm a nerd. I love to read... But I have to be honest and say that I haven't in awhile and I hate that I haven't.
I have this overwhelming obsession with Ireland...
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I also have an obsession with the Celts
I have books upon books on Ireland and her mythology and legends, so those would top my list
Morgan Llywelyn is a brilliant author making it seem like Finn MacCool, Cuchulain, the Tuatha de Danaan, the Sidhe faery folk are real and factual and that these mythologies actually did happen
Maeve Binchy brings you into modern Ireland, her “Glass Lake†is my favorite
Alice Hoffman is just… Her stories frighten you, fascinate you, bring magic, surrealism, wonder and mystery into you. She has the most beautiful words, ideas, stories.
For example: “If someone were to weigh the beauty of moonlight against the depth of human cruelty, which would win? Moonlight could not be held in the palm of one’s hand, but cruelty could cut deep. Who could begin to describe the color of moonlight once it had been replaced by the clear light of day? Who could say it had even existed, if it had been anything more than a dream?â€
Frank McCourt’s “Angela’s Ashes†is a beautiful, tragic, heartbreaking, hilarious, uplifting memoir. Yes, it is all these things and more. It brings hope where there seems to be none, laughter when all around is sadness and heartache... All this makes for a beautiful book...
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My poetry books leave me wanting more, leave me in a dream-like state. No offense, but I'm into old school poetry, no modern day spoken word for me,so I won't go off on that subject.
Give me William Butler Yeats, Edgar Allan Poe, Rainer Maria Rilke, Shakespeare, The Rossettis, Percy Bysshe Shelley anytime, none of these ultra-modern-wannabe-intellectual-thinking-what-they're-sayi ng-is-poetry-s*%t.
Arthur Guinness is definitely a hero of mine. "GUINNESS IS GOOD FOR YA!"
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THIS IS GREAT! Take the quiz: "Which Random Irish Gaelic Phrase Are You? "
Pog mo thoin
Pog mo thoin - 'Kiss my ass.'You're one tough bastard, and if anyone doesn't like it, they can kiss your ass. You enjoy fighting and causing grievous bodily harm. Hey! What are you lookin' at, punk?